GRE Word List
PROPONENT
one who argues in favor of something : advocate
The meaning of the word proponent is one who argues in favor of something : advocate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |
| osseous | bony |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |